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  1. The Seven Heroes of Qin in the Warring States Period: from Frontier to Dynasty Short Story243k Wordscompleted It started in 362 BC (Qin Xiaogong succeeded to the throne) and ended in 221 BC (Qin unified the world), which spanned about 140 years. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  2. The Rose of Versailles and the Guillotine Short Story849k Wordscompleted In 18th-century France, the Palace of Versailles was a giant cage made of marble, gold and lies. On the surface, this is a beacon of European civilization—candlelight illuminates silk skirts, perfume masks body odor, and minuets drown out wails of hunger. But in fact, this is a precision-designed "reality show stage" in which the king is the producer, the nobles are the actors, and the 30 million French people are the audience who are forced to pay but cannot enter. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  3. The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period Short Story215k Wordscompleted "Han, the throat of the world." ——"Historical Records" The throat is the most critical and the most vulnerable. 0Votes4Recs0Fans
  4. Spirit Detection Dragon Group Short Story603k Wordsongoing Thirty years ago, underground spiritual veins began to move around the world. As one of the birthplaces of ancient civilization, Dragon Kingdom has the highest density of spiritual veins in the world. Resurrection of spiritual veins brings two consequences: Supernatural events have surged: the frequency of ghosts, demons, and evil spirits has increased hundreds of times. The emergence of awakened people: a very small number of people are born or acquire the ability to see, touch, and fight super 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  5. The Purple Tent: Shadow of the Double-Headed Eagle Short Story382k Wordscompleted This is the peak moment of the Byzantine Empire - Bulgaria has been crushed, the military district system is still strong, and the "Macedonian Renaissance" is bringing the glory of classical civilization to bloom again. However, this is also the beginning of the abyss. Basil II left no heirs, and his mediocre brother Constantine VIII was about to succeed him, and subsequent successors would push the empire into a crisis that would last for decades. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  6. The Great Fusion of Boundary-Crossers Short Story738k Wordsongoing Great Fusion (Time Travel Event): A global energy fluctuation of unknown origin occurred on Earth B. This fluctuation tore apart time and space, randomly "projecting" 18 people from Earth A into their corresponding bodies on Earth B, and "resonated" with Earth B's newly awakened superpower, thus gaining unique abilities. At the same time, some native humans on Earth B also began to awaken. 0Votes4Recs0Fans
  7. King Chuzhuang of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period Short Story188k Wordscompleted In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (about 613 BC - 591 BC), the Zhou royal family declined, rituals collapsed, music collapsed, and princes competed for hegemony. This is an era of drastic changes in which the old order is about to collapse and a new order is about to be established. The rising power in the south, Da Chu: claims to be a "barbarian" but is determined to forge ahead. It has strong national power and an enterprising culture. The emperor and his ministers work together to 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  8. Bronze Age - Western Zhou Dynasty Short Story155k Wordscompleted The period from the 11th century BC to the 8th century BC corresponds to the collapse of the Yin Shang Dynasty and the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. At this time, Chinese civilization was transforming from the Shang Dynasty witchcraft civilization dominated by ghosts and gods to the Zhou Dynasty ritual and music civilization "human ethics". This is a critical period for a fundamental turning point in the temperament of Chinese civilization. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  9. Mongolia: Song of the Sky Short Story262k Wordscompleted "Eternal Life" is the highest belief of the Mongolians, symbolizing destiny and eternity. "Song" means the joys and sorrows of conquest, construction, love, hate and betrayal composed by the children of the grassland with their lives. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  10. Poland's Ashes and Roses Historical387k Wordscompleted In 1768, on the eve of resisting the Russian invasion, the family ancestors made a contract with a mysterious old nobleman: "As long as at least one person in each generation of the family remembers to fight for Poland's freedom, Poland will not disappear from the map." 0Votes8Recs0Fans
  11. America: to the West Historical137k Wordscompleted A train that is always extending westward but never reaches the end; a group of people who are always looking for gold but always dig in the wrong place; a missionary who is always spreading civilization but is never understood; and the silent and mocking land, quietly watching these ant-like humans crawling around on her body. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  12. Joseon Dynasty 1650-1850 Historical246k Wordscompleted Middle and late Joseon Dynasty (about 1650-1850) This period is known as the "Magical Reality of Little China" era - a dynasty struggling between the doctrines of Neo-Confucianism and reality. 0Votes16Recs0Fans
  13. The Imprisoned Prisoner: the Secret of the Sun King Historical106k Wordscompleted A short historical story of France: During the reign of Louis XIV, Versailles was the center of the whirlpool of power, filled with luxury, intrigue and secrets. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  14. Italy: the Dark Side of Emerald Green Short Story55k Wordscompleted Era background 1478, Florence Lorenzo de'Medici: The "tyrant" of Florence, known as "Lorenzo the Magnificent", a poet and patron of the arts, but also ruthless. Sandro Botticelli: One of the most famous painters of his time, author of "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus". Girolamo Savonarola: Dominican monk who later led the "Bonfire of the Vanities", the burning of works of art. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  15. The Three Laws of Hidden Veins Urban94k Wordscompleted "Hidden Veins" refers to both the practitioner's inheritance and the earth's energy flow trajectory (the "dragon vein" in Feng Shui). The two combine to form the true appearance of this world. Rule One: The Price of Inheritance All "hidden lineage" inheritances come with a price. Rule 2: Wall of the Real World Ordinary people cannot see the truth about "hidden veins" because the brain has a "cognitive protection mechanism." Rule 3: Conservation of the Way of Heaven The abilities in "hidden veins 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  16. Ottoman: Coffee and Knives Under the Crescent Moon Historical396k Wordscompleted Time span: 1299-1923 (the complete history of the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire) In 1353, 39 Ottoman warriors took advantage of an earthquake to occupy Gallipoli Castle. Since then, a secret "39th Man Organization" has spread in the darkness of the empire-each generation of sultans has a secret advisory group composed of 39 wise men, warriors, and businessmen. Their duty is to hand over a cup of coffee and say something that changes the destiny of the empire at critical moments in history. 0Votes21Recs0Fans
  17. Mrauk-U Dynasty: the Golden City of the Bay of Bengal Short Story254k Wordscompleted Mrauk U City: Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are 90,000 pagodas in the city. The golden tops of the pagodas look like a golden forest in the sun. At the foot of the mountain is a busy port with merchant ships from Arabia, India, and Malaya anchored. The rivers outside the city crisscross each other, forming a natural water maze. Bay of Bengal: Monsoon winds blow regularly, bringing merchant ships as well 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  18. Thousands of Pagodas and Forests in Bagan Short Story99k Wordscompleted Main time: AD 1044-1287 (the Bagan dynasty flourished until its fall); spatial span: Bagan Plain (core), Direct Kingdom (south), Arakan Coast (west), Dali Kingdom (north), Ceylon (sea) 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  19. Dragon Armor Chapter: Three Realms and Nine Wilds Short Story255k Wordscompleted Cosmology: Three Realms and Nine Wilds System "Stars·Earth·Human Hub" three-dimensional universe model Celestial Realm: The heavenly power composed of Twenty-Eight Constellations, Jiuyao Xingjun, Ziweiyuan, etc. The "Tian Pan" in Qi Men Dun Jia corresponds to this realm. Earth Vein Realm: The energy network composed of dragon veins, earth energy, and feng shui. The dragon veins of China's nine states and the nodes of the earth's earth veins all have spirituality. Human hub world: the third pole 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  20. Germany 1806-1871 Historical142k Wordscompleted 1806 (Disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire) - 1871 (establishment of the German Empire). These 65 years were the most tumultuous and dramatic period in the history of the German nation. 0Votes7Recs0Fans
  21. America's Two Wars Historical390k Wordscompleted In the United States from 1775 to 1877, a family was divided due to different stances during the War of Independence. This rift was like a curse, buried deep in the family's blood. During the Civil War, the curse came true again, and the descendants seemed to be driven by invisible forces to stand on both sides of the rift valley again. 0Votes5Recs0Fans
  22. Thailand: Blood of the Chao Phraya River Short Story118k Wordscompleted Thailand: Ayutthaya Dynasty from its heyday to its demise (King Narai ascended the throne in 1656 - the city was destroyed in 1767) 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  23. Modern Japan: Japan's Past Short Story194k Wordscompleted The skeleton (fan bone): uses real historical events as the anchor (the Sekigahara War, the issuance of the national lockdown, the Shimabara Rebellion, etc.); The fan (fan paper): unfolds fictional stories in the gaps between events. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  24. Gongbang Dynasty: the Last Dragonborn Short Story291k Wordscompleted The first stage (1752-1760): The rise of Yong Ji Ya and the unification of Myanmar The second stage (1824-1852): two Anglo-Burmese wars, cession of territory and compensation The third stage (1852-1878): King Mantong's reforms and the capital moved to Mandalay The fourth stage (1878-1885): The bloody accession of King Xipao to the throne and the collapse of the dynasty 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  25. Thailand's Thonburi Dynasty: City of Phoenix Short Story260k Wordscompleted The Ayutthaya dynasty, which had been prosperous for four hundred years, was completely destroyed by the Burmese Konbaung dynasty army, and Siam fell into a dark age of "fragmentation and leaderlessness". Warlords everywhere are separatist, people's livelihood is in decline, Buddhist temples are destroyed, and cultural heritage is facing a crisis of rupture. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  26. Daikin Slash Youth Historical92k Wordscompleted This is an era about "a sudden change in painting style" - a group of hard-core hunters from the White Mountains and Black Waters suddenly took over the Central Plains and were forced to learn to drink tea, write poetry, collect taxes and review cases. When "reckless" meets "elegant", when "riding and shooting" meets "imperial examination", jokes and dilemmas arise. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  27. Italy 1815 to 1870 Short Story83k Wordscompleted In this land, everything can be explained in three sentences: the first sentence is "Maybe tomorrow will be better", the second sentence is "But today is bad", and the third sentence is "Forget it, let's eat first." 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  28. Covenant of the Crucible: Vatican Blood and Mud Record Historical244k Wordscompleted Time span: AD 64 (Fire of Nero) → AD 337 (Death of Constantine) → AD 852 (Walls of Leo) → AD 1377 (Return to Rome) → End to the Eve of the Renaissance Main scenes: Rome City, Vatican Hills, Nero's Hippodrome, Catacombs, Old St. Peter's Basilica Construction Site, Medieval Borgo Street, Avignon Papal Palace, etc. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  29. Wine and Iron Mask Historical264k Wordscompleted One line writes about the ancient Gallo-Roman period (50 BC), and the other line writes about medieval France (1314-1316). The two lines are connected through a mysterious "bronze mask" and a incomplete family chronicle, forming a causal loop spanning 1,300 years. 0Votes5Recs0Fans
  30. Vietnam: Smiling Beacon Smoke in the Southern Country Historical187k Wordscompleted Era coordinates: 1771-1802 (the 31st year of the rise and fall of the Xishan Dynasty) 0Votes9Recs0Fans
  31. Gypsy: Wandering Stars and Songs Historical115k Wordscompleted The Roma people have three major clans, each with its own emblems and taboos. Our story focuses on the Bronze Wheel Clan - their emblem is a copper-colored wheel, half rolling on the ground and half floating in the clouds. The taboo is: not sleeping on the same piece of land for three months in a row. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  32. Urban Hermit Short Story255k Wordscompleted Contemporary city, 2020s. On the surface, it is a modern society that is no different from the one we live in, with tall buildings, network coverage, and the rise of artificial intelligence. But beneath the surface, there is a "hidden world" - phenomena that cannot be explained by science, dharma that has been passed down for thousands of years, and practitioners who are free from the system, have been operating in the dark. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  33. War Correspondent: Book of Witnesses Short Story143k Wordscompleted In the smoke of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, five war reporters from different countries reached a secret covenant under the ruins of Paris: regardless of nationality or camp, recorders should help each other and let the truth pass through the flames of war and reach future generations. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  34. France's Hundred Years' War Short Story79k Wordscompleted AD 1428-1456 was the darkest and most glorious period in French history. 0Votes3Recs0Fans
  35. East Germany: Fish on the Wall Short Story66k Wordscompleted October 1949-October 1990 (the complete life cycle of East Germany) 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  36. The Pope Is Crazy: Chronicles of Renaissance Darkness Historical313k Wordscompleted Historical nodes: Borgia was elected pope in 1492 Cesare Borgia conquers Romagna in 1499 In 1506 Julius II ordered the demolition of Old St. Peter's Basilica Michelangelo painted the Sistine ceiling from 1508 to 1512 1517 Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-Five Theses 1527 Holy Roman Empire troops sack Rome 0Votes8Recs0Fans
  37. Japanese Fusang Record Short Story116k Wordscompleted Time: Yuanhong three years (1333) to Yanyuan four years (1339) From the end of the Kamakura Shogunate to the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties Specifically, it runs through: Emperor Go-Daigo's Kenbu New Deal, Ashikaga Takauji's defection, the split between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the exile of the Yoshino court 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  38. Toungoo Dynasty: the Eye of the White Elephant Historical161k Wordscompleted The "Eye of the White Elephant" is not only the third eye in Mang Yinglong's legend (which can see the future), but also an image throughout the book: there are awakened people in every era who open their eyes to see the future in the blood and fire of history. 1510-1752, 242 Years, six generations 0Votes5Recs0Fans
  39. A Short Story About the Kingdom of Naples Short Story112k Wordscompleted In the mid-16th century, the Kingdom of Naples was under Spanish rule. This period is called the "dark side of the Golden Century" by historians. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  40. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: a Joke About the Genealogy of Heroes in Troubled Times Historical1.0M Wordscompleted The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is a complicated era that is difficult to remember, so we use a joke to see if we can make it easier for readers to understand this painful history. 0Votes17Recs0Fans
  41. Heavenly List: Survival Record of the Warring States Period Western Fantasy570k Wordscompleted A Spring and Autumn Warring States period with [National Comprehensive Strength List·Ode to Joy of the Seven Heroes], there may not be a vigorous history here, but there may be a large-scale "variety show of princes". 0Votes6Recs0Fans
  42. A Historical Story About a Small Person in Britain Historical863k Wordscompleted How Elias Hawke used information to survive, profit, and ultimately be drawn into the vortex that determined the fate of the country in the turbulent waters of thirty years, from a bystander to an (unwilling) participant. 0Votes6Recs0Fans
  43. Taipingcene Historical647k Wordscompleted Modern man Zhang Jiao travels back to ancient Zhang Jiao. Will the integration of Zhang Jiao's modern thinking and ancient reality, Zhang Ning's intelligence and determination, Zhang Bao's meticulousness, and Zhang Liang's bravery bring a different ending to the history of that year? 0Votes10Recs0Fans
  44. The Wind Rises from the Jin Dynasty Crossing South Historical535k Wordscompleted The Western Jin Dynasty had just fallen (316 years), and the Jin Dynasty moved south to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The northern land completely fell into a power vacuum, which was known in history as the darkest moment after the "Yongjia Rebellion". The ultimate chaos is the best stage for the protagonist to establish order and demonstrate value. 0Votes14Recs0Fans
  45. The Iron-Blooded Song Dynasty: Jing'an Storm Historical756k Wordscompleted In the autumn of the sixth year of Xuanhe, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (1124 AD). At this time, the Fangla Uprising had just been put down. Under the superficial prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty, financial, military and political crises had become difficult to recover from. There are only more than two years left before the fatal "Jingkang Incident". A 29-year-old young man traveled through time and became a descendant of a distant branch of the clan in Bianjing whose family was i 0Votes18Recs0Fans
  46. Bianjing Menghualu in the Northern Song Dynasty Historical500k Wordscompleted The story spans the fourth year of Xining (1071) to the second year of Jingkang (1127), covering the climax of the reform, the transformation of Yuanyou, Shaosheng Shaoshu, the artistic flourishing of the Huizong Dynasty, and the fall of the capital. These 56 years were the complete arc of the Northern Song Dynasty from prosperity to decline. 0Votes8Recs0Fans
  47. Dreams Around the Late Ming Dynasty Historical1.0M Wordsongoing The modern intellectual Zhu Yan traveled back to the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), an era of internal and external troubles. Internal worries: The peasant uprising in northern Shaanxi has become a prairie fire (Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong are active), there are endless party disputes in the court (the remnants of the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party), and Emperor Chongzhen is suspicious and eager for success. Foreign invasion: After the Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji continued to grow outsid 0Votes16Recs0Fans
  48. Return to the Late Ming Dynasty and Become King Xin Historical940k Wordscompleted Zhu Jian, a 26-year-old history graduate student and corporate strategy consultant, accidentally traveled through time and possessed the 10-year-old Xinwang Zhu Youjian. See how he turned the tide, piloted the Ming Dynasty battleship to ride the wind and waves, and let China stand tall in the jungle of nations in the world. 0Votes25Recs0Fans
  49. Set Sail from the Warring States Period Historical602k Wordscompleted In 453 BC, on the eve of the Battle of Jinyang, Zhi Boyao forced the Han and Wei families to besiege the Zhao family in Jinyang. However, Zhao Xiangzi eventually instigated the Han and Wei families to rebel against the Han and Wei families. The three families rebelled against the Zhi family and completely divided the Jin Kingdom. The "Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period" pattern was actually formed. This is the absolute starting point for the collapse of order and the growth of ambition. 0Votes13Recs0Fans
  50. Song Character Card System Historical195k Wordscompleted The Song Dynasty was the dynasty in Chinese history that succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and led to the Yuan Dynasty. It was divided into two stages, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. It experienced a total of eighteen emperors and enjoyed a country of 319 years. How to make boring history simpler and easier to understand? I want to try The main line of the chronicle (bright line): Advance in the order of the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty→Chanyua 0Votes2Recs0Fans